“I thought this was genuinely chilling... Great performance from Kinnear.” letterboxd.com
The story follows Edward Williams (played with "understated" excellence by ), a university museum curator who receives a mysterious, nondescript engraving—a mezzotint—of an English country house. What starts as a boring acquisition soon becomes a nightmare: every time Williams looks at the picture, the scene has changed. A moon appears; a window opens; a skeletal figure begins to crawl across the lawn. The Mezzotint felirat Angol
Watch Mark Gatiss discuss the creation and 'bleak atmosphere' of this adaptation: The Mezzotint (2021) with Mark Gatiss Evolution Of Horror YouTube• Dec 23, 2021 Why It Works “I thought this was genuinely chilling
A haunting half-hour adaptation of M.R. James’s classic tale, The Mezzotint is a standout entry in the BBC’s "A Ghost Story for Christmas" series. Written and directed by Mark Gatiss, it transforms a seemingly mundane scholarly pursuit into a chilling study of slow-burn dread. A Masterclass in Creeping Dread A moon appears; a window opens; a skeletal
Reviews of A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint (2021)
“You'll be in thrall to Mark Gatiss's smart, snappy and utterly hammy ghost story within seconds.” www.theguardian.com
At only 30 minutes, the film uses every second to build what critics at The Guardian call a "glittering half-hour nugget" of horror.